YOUNG PEOPLE SHOULD BE TAUGHT TO THINK
The Hon. J. A. Hanan, in the course of an address delivered at the Auckland Grammar School on Monday last, referred to the fact that many clever boys who had secured brilliant successes in school examinations disappointed the higher anticipations and hopes formed of their future after leaving school or college. While memory training and the gaming of information from books were valuable, remarked the Minister, it was of the utmost importance that our young people should grow up strong individual thinkers. With that in view their object should be to see that school work produced thought and reflection,, and thus improved the thinking faculty. We wanted our young people to grow up able to think, reason, and act for themselves, and to show initiative and self-relia-nceV Mr. Hanan stressed the importance of training not for school but for life, and also the ,importauce of discipline and duty in; building up good citizenship. : '
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 33, 7 August 1918, Page 7
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